(especially North American English) (North American English also drapery) [usually plural] a long thick curtain blue velvet drapes Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectiveheavy, thick, floral, … verb + drapeclose, draw, pull, … drape + verbhang, cover See full entry See related entries: Furniture Word Originmid 19th cent.: back-formation from drapery, influenced by French draper ‘to drape’. The noun senses date from the early 20th cent.
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